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Project 24: CANADIANS OF UNCOMMON VALOR

Acts of fearless valor during wartime are events that capture the attention of everyone and remain in memories forever. Here is a  project with the focus on 93 recipients of the Victoria Cross who were either born in Canada or emigrated to Canada, many from Ireland.

The Victoria Cross is the highest war honor of the British Empire and the Commonwealth of Nations.  The creation of the Victoria Cross was completed soon after the Crimean War and by the year 1993, when the Canadian Victoria Cross was instituted, 94 Canadians had been so honored.

The Canadian Victoria Cross is the highest honor in the Canadian honors system, placed before all other orders, decorations, and medals, including the Order of Canada. The Victoria Cross recognizes the most conspicuous bravery, a daring or pre-eminent act of valor or self-sacrifice, or extreme devotion to duty in the presence of an enemy.  In World War I, seventy-one awards were presented and in World War II, sixteen awards were awarded; no Canadian has received this honor since 1945.

Most of the Canadians awarded the Victoria Cross were born in small towns across Canada but eight of them, by far the greatest number for any city, were born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Other cities with multiple Victoria Cross recipients include Quebec City, Quebec, Toronto, Ontario, and Calgary, Alberta, each with three recipients. 

Canadian veteran's groups and the Canadian Government have organized extensive information about these valiant men and you owe it to yourself to go on the internet and read their stories. These Canadians should not be forgotten.

THE DATA

There have been 94 Canadian recipients of the Victoria Cross and for this study I have acquired the birth information for 93 of them. The oldest was born on April 28, 1887 and the youngest was born on May 21, 1921. Most of the acts for which these men are celebrated took place during World War One but some were awarded during World War Two as well. Some of the recipients were killed during the event for which they are remembered or died soon after and never saw the Victoria Cross itself, as it was awarded posthumously. Others did manage to escape the horrors, more or less in one piece, and frequently went on to other notable accomplishments in Canada.

THE PLANETS

To start off this cosmic profile let us begin with the table below which reports the HIGH and LOW count sectors for the four planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. These four planets were identified in the 93 individual heliograms and the position of each added to the sector count.

EXAMPLE: Mercury was found 11.8% of the time in sector 6 and 4.3% of the time in sector 7.

The position of planet Earth in the sectors is the only one that can describe the season on Earth at the time. The highest count for Earth is in sector 2, one of the Autumn sectors in the northern hemisphere; sector 2 is usually October 21 to November 21 on the calendar.

The seasonal distribution for Earth is as follows:  Fall - 30.1%, Winter - 25.8%, Spring - 19.3%, and Summer - 24.7%. The highest number of Canadian Victoria Cross recipients were born in the FALL season of the year.

HELIOGRAM TYPES

The following table shows the count for the eight heliogram types. For comparison, the column on the far right displays the percentage of the TYPES found in the Adams & Eves Control group. There are significant differences in the counts for the two groups, especially for the Bee and Butterfly Types for example.

PLANETARY PATTERNS

For a review of the Planetary Patterns use the following link:  GO

A heliogram with only one pattern, or two or more instances of the same pattern (e.g. 2 stelliums) are counted in the ONLY group while those heliograms displaying more than one type of pattern are counted in the COMBO group. To obtain a total count for a pattern, add the two groups together.

EXAMPLE: the stellium pattern is found as an ONLY pattern in 21.5% of the group and as a COMBO (+) pattern in 49.5% of the group for a combined total of 71% of the recipients. Stated another way, 71% of the Victoria Cross recipients had a stellium on their heliogram.

When compared to the results in the other projects, these men of uncommon valor had the KITE pattern at the same percentage level as that found in Olympic athletes. The STELLIUM and NONE counts were in the high end of the range when compared to other projects.

Project continued - THE TRANSITS